The article, and the remarks of those interviewed in it, struck a chord with us, as earlier today we blogged about an article on Quartz that seems to dovetail with the correlation Owens covers. That piece had talked about how gentrification played out in Brooklyn along class contours. It read:

Williamsburg is getting a Trader Joe’s while interior Brooklyn is rapidly becoming the Sahara of all food deserts. Affluent white people buy expensive stuff, poor minorities do not—or so market research likely tells the folks in location-development departments at Whole Foods, Urban Outfitters, and company.